Example sentences of "[prep] his [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrat Mr Don Foster , a former leader of the Alliance group on Avon county council , needs only a 1.4 per cent swing to wipe out Mr Patten 's 1,412 majority after his 13 years as the constituency 's MP . |
| 2 | Now , as those ambitions have crumbled , Barbara must be remembering how it all started , the day when she and George swept into the White House after his eight years as Vice-President . |
| 3 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 4 | Despite his 23 years ' service at Hatchards , he was asked to supply three references . |
| 5 | As stylish as ever despite his 51 years , Jeff King took charge with David Nicholson 's Dreamers Delight three furlongs out in the ‘ Golden Oldies ’ charity challenge . |
| 6 | He peered across at Maisie now , as he groped his way to the table , his face showing the strain of his forty-eight years in Wimbledon . |
| 7 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 8 | His arrest was the beginning of his twelve years in prison , labour camp , and psychiatric hospital . |
| 9 | Over the last fraction of his 34 years ' experience in the hobby , Chris has dispensed with all the traditional off the shelf treatments and remedies for fish and has turned to ‘ natural medicine ’ , centred mainly around the use of herbs — with great success . |
| 10 | He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years . |
| 11 | And it has fascinated Bill Foggitt for most of his 79 years . |
| 12 | As one with a consuming interest in spiritual matters for most of his 74 years , and with a great deal of experience of communicating with those who have ‘ passed over ’ , he presents an optimistic view which , he hopes , will appeal to the general public . |
| 13 | THE cracking of Salman Rushdie is the saddest outcome of his two years in hiding : an apparently forced recantation , and nothing to show for it . |
| 14 | Eighteen-year-old Chris Bolton , who lived in Folly Hill , had come to the end of his two years training with the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton . |
| 15 | The best account of Emerson 's last year in FI is in Keke 's memoir of his two years with Fittipaldi . |
| 16 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |
| 17 | When he wrote to the Prince of Canino five months later he had a little more time to describe the achievements of his two years ‘ in the wilds of Australia ’ : |
| 18 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 19 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 20 | He had lived most of his sixty years in Burma , being the son of missionary parents . |
| 21 | Indeed , Eisenhower ( Republican , 1953–60 ) for six of his eight years and Nixon ( Republican , 1969–74 ) for all of his years faced Democratic majorities in Congress . |
| 22 | Sir Peter , currently the British Army 's most decorated serving officer , has spent no less than 20 of his 38 years ' service in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker . |
| 23 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 24 | The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started . |
| 25 | Stakis Hotels recently presented Stakis Highland Lodges ' Peter McIntosh with a £1,000 travel voucher and a gold and diamond pin in recognition of his 25 years ' service . |
| 26 | When Wood retired in 1968 ( by which time he had become head porter ) he gave an account of his 35 years of service ; what follows are extracts from his address , in his own words : |
| 27 | The paintings illustrate the notable moments of his forty years of life , including that most singular to the Filipinos , the bringing of Christianity to their islands . |
| 28 | For most of his forty years with the company , he worked in the Finishing Department where he began in 1950 . |
| 29 | But with England 's great goalkeeper still betraying no signs of his 40 years , except a finely honed judgement that causes the target to shrink before advancing strikers , hopes are high that Poland can be shut out and the points secured that will see England safely through to Italy . |
| 30 | He had heard the speech often , not only from Joseph , but from those like him , committed , embittered men with a vision that even Patrick with all the wisdom of his twenty years , knew would never be achieved in his lifetime . |